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Support for Eclipse IDZ in addition to VS Code

100s of developers in my client MetLife using eclipse based IDe
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Delivered

WCA4Z COA should scan for //JOBLIB in JCL and use it instead of //STEPLIB to pickup profiler load module

Some of the JCL will have many steps and the user have to modify ever single step for profiler load module. If we can able to add profiler load module PDS in //JOBLIB then it will avoid coding //STEPLIB in multiple places inside the JCL

Read an old COBOL program and document it in english such that a business user could read and understand it

With COBOL programmers retiring, clients struggle to identify critical business logic hidden in old COBOL code. This ability is also important for refactoring old COBOL code, creating APIs and Integration points, and in deciding which capabilities...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Delivered

Enable bjobs to report peak CPU efficiency

Need to be able to retrieve the peak CPU efficiency from the bjobs command at the end of the run.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 4 Delivered

Add bkill option that will set the job status to DONE rather than EXIT

Currently all jobs terminated via bkill are set to status EXIT. With the growing usage of bioinformatics tools and applications that were traditionally run on dedicated servers being integrated into use on HPC resources there is a shifting paradig...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 4 Delivered

lsf.conf documentation should report which daemon(s) need restart

Every time an lsf.conf entry is recommended by Support, I have to turn around and ask which daemon (or daemons) need a restart, which causes delay. The developers already know what daemons are affected by the changes, please document which ones ne...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

An AI assistant to test COBOL code rewriting

For cases WCAT-I-1, WCAT-I-8, WCAT-I-11, WCAT-I-16, WCAT-I-17, it would be useful to have a tool for automating the generation of non-regression test cases, comparing the results of executing the original COBOL program and the transformed COBOL pr...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Delivered

The LSFProxy does not print a 'total' count as 'badmin perfmon view' does leading to misreading of the number of total events since restarting

In 'badmin perfmon view', we always are able to see the total events for a specific output class. This is not possible in 'badmin lsfproxyd status' output. Please add that output. Specifically, we can see average/min/max rejections from proxyd, an...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

WCA4Z in Z Open Editor needs to access IBM Cloud through a proxy server

When Z Open Editor clients can only access IBM Cloud through a proxy server, attempts to set the API key fail with an error: 2024-03-21T13:45:09.845-04:00 ERROR: 2024-03-21T17:45:09.845Z: watsonx Code Assistant error response: [/v1/wca/codegen/c2j...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Delivered

bkill command enhancement

We need to use bkill command to kill a specific user's pending jobs. However, there's no such a option for bkill.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Delivered